Honey Rant
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@dK said in Honey Rant:
@Donsteppa said in Honey Rant:
Plant lots of lavender! (Amongst other good options). Have put lots in under our dwarf citrus trees and it seems to be a good attraction/source of food for the bees (and handily gets them in the vicinity of the citrus...)
When we first moved in our garden was full of yukkas etc... not a bee in sight for the first year...
Shouldn't you plant manuka and then live off the riches
Remember the 70s and 80s where "scrub cutting" was a massive industry and consisted of stripping the hillsides of manuka?
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@booboo said in Honey Rant:
@dK said in Honey Rant:
@Donsteppa said in Honey Rant:
Plant lots of lavender! (Amongst other good options). Have put lots in under our dwarf citrus trees and it seems to be a good attraction/source of food for the bees (and handily gets them in the vicinity of the citrus...)
When we first moved in our garden was full of yukkas etc... not a bee in sight for the first year...
Shouldn't you plant manuka and then live off the riches
Remember the 70s and 80s where "scrub cutting" was a massive industry and consisted of stripping the hillsides of manuka?
May have participated a little scrub cutting on the uncles farm. Fuck the bees
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@dK said in Honey Rant:
@booboo said in Honey Rant:
@dK said in Honey Rant:
@Donsteppa said in Honey Rant:
Plant lots of lavender! (Amongst other good options). Have put lots in under our dwarf citrus trees and it seems to be a good attraction/source of food for the bees (and handily gets them in the vicinity of the citrus...)
When we first moved in our garden was full of yukkas etc... not a bee in sight for the first year...
Shouldn't you plant manuka and then live off the riches
Remember the 70s and 80s where "scrub cutting" was a massive industry and consisted of stripping the hillsides of manuka?
May have participated a little scrub cutting on the uncles farm. Fuck the bees
Is 'scrub cutting' some rural euphemism I should be cautious of googling?
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What genius got funding for that project? Woopdy fucking doo a drone can brush over one plant and then go to another.. hardly needed a proof of concept to figure that one.
I would have been more impressed if they figured out how make the drone do it without some guy on a remote controller.
I am so jealous I didnt think of this scam to get funding
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haha yeah bizaare, especially the last line...which I know was a throw away but still
The one thing they still won’t be able to do? Make honey. But with their pollination workload lightened, maybe we could leave that one to the bees.
Hope someone remembers to tell the bees not to worry about the pollinating part!
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@taniwharugby said in Honey Rant:
haha yeah bizaare, especially the last line...which I know was a throw away but still
The one thing they still won’t be able to do? Make honey. But with their pollination workload lightened, maybe we could leave that one to the bees.
Hope someone remembers to tell the bees not to worry about the pollinating part!
with their workload lightened, we should be within our rights to reduce their weekend and overtime penalty rates as well. Wins all round
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@mariner4life would help reduce the cost of making honey too, so should make it much cheaper!
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@taniwharugby nah, according to a widely shared, but under-researched meme created by their union, the fatcat farmers will just pocket that difference. And they don't even pay tax!
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@mariner4life bet the Farmers don't even pay the bees either! And yet those cnuty wasps still fly around thinking they can sting whoever they like, whenever they like, where ever they like. Maybe with all their spare time from pollinating the Bees should rise up and destroy the evil wasps!
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@taniwharugby never urge the proletariat to rise up!!
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@mariner4life friend of the cnuty wasps huh, wasp rights my arse!
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@taniwharugby marxist
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@mariner4life wasps are cnuts, bees are crime fighters!!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=11811408
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Honey Rant:
What genius got funding for that project? Woopdy fucking doo a drone can brush over one plant and then go to another.. hardly needed a proof of concept to figure that one.
I would have been more impressed if they figured out how make the drone do it without some guy on a remote controller.
I am so jealous I didnt think of this scam to get fundingIts exactly the same model used for all of these. EG military drones are piloted, once they get everything ironed out re the setup frame stresses available from not having a human in the drone, the sensors etc, the next gen dont need a pilot.
Same here. The core things they need to develop are building a drone that can hover & brush up against the flower, get the size down, and get enough pollen without damaging the flower. Then you automate them.
Seriously every single tech advance does this. EG Tesla will be fully self drive. They were none self drive at all, then partial. Then full auto. If you can figure out how to jump over all the interim steps you could get some serious funding without needing a scam.
Not sure I can think of a single tech advance that has skipped all the interim phases
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@taniwharugby said in Honey Rant:
@mariner4life wasps are cnuts, bees are crime fighters!!
Bees are... Batman?
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@Kruse said in Honey Rant:
@taniwharugby said in Honey Rant:
@mariner4life wasps are cnuts, bees are crime fighters!!
Bees are... Batman?
Only the top 1%
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